Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Consolidated Stanley Mine
- Interior of the smelter of the Consolidated Stanley Mining Company in Clear Creek County, Colorado. The long room is divided by a row of rooms. Male workers stand in some of the doorways to each of the rooms. The high ceiling has exposed wood...
- Consolidated Stanley Mining Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1910.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1890-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Clear Creek...
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Mines, Gilpin County, Colo.
- View of mines and mining operations near Central City, Gilpin County, Colo. during the winter.
- Gold mines and mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--2000-2010.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Gold mines and mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--Pictorial works.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2005
- Gold exhibit at their office, consisting of specimens of native gold
- View of gold ingots in a metal cage, some from mines of the Ibex and Antioch Mining Companies of Leadville, Colorado.
- Antioch Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.)--Products--1880-1900.; Ibex Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.)--Products--1880-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Gold exhibit at their office, consisting of specimens of native gold
- View of gold ingots, some from mines of the Ibex and Antioch Mining Companies of Leadville, Colorado.
- Antioch Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.)--Products--1880-1900.; Ibex Mining Company (Leadville, Colo.)--Products--1880-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Gold--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Camp Goldfield, N.G.C., Cripple Creek District
- View of "Camp Goldfield," headquarters of the Colorado National Guard during the Western Federation of Miners labor strike. Shows rows of tents, mine buildings, probably Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad cars and a trestle, smokestacks, and the...
- Colorado. National Guard--Structures--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Cripple Creek Strike, Cripple Creek, Colo., 1903-1904.; Victor (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Military camps--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Victor--1900-1910.;...
- 1903
- Grant smelter
- A view of the Grant Smelter in Denver, Colorado. Shows industrial style buildings, smoke stacks and train tracks.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Smelters--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Black Creek Mine
- Mining buildings and equipment dot the tree covered hillside of the Black Creek (Crook ?) Mine probably in Colorado.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- Independence Mine
- A view of the Independence gold mine at Victor, Teller county, Colorado, owned by Winfield Scott Stratton. Shows multiple buildings, smoke stacks and a dirt road that leads to the mine.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Victor--1890-1910.; Stratton Independence Mine (Victor, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Newhouse mine
- Shows mining buildings of the Newhouse mine in Gilpin County (Colorado).
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1910.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Newhouse Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1910]
- Cripple Creek, Colorado Midland Ry, Pano (Section of 6170)
- View of the mining town Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows masonry commercial buildings, residential frame structures, outbuildings, and the Portland Hotel. Shows dirt roads to mines and mining structures on the hillside. A locomotive...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek, Colorado
- View of the mining town of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows hewn log cabins with chinking, framed windows, doors, and chimneys; wood frame residences; and masonry commercial buildings. Mines and mining structures are on the hillside...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek, Col.
- View of the mining town of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado. Shows hewn log cabins with chinking, framed windows, doors, and chimneys; one and two-story wood frame residences; and multi-story masonry commercial buildings. Mines and mining...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Log cabins--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- 1897
- Cripple Creek (Co. Midland Ry.)
- View of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado; shows multi-story masonry commercial buildings and frame residential structures and outbuildings. Shows dirt roads to the mines, mining structures, and tailings on the hillside. A sign on one...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Quartz Hill and Nevadaville
- Reproduction of an engraving of Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, consists of dwellings, commercial buildings, and mining facilities. Mines include: Pease-Kansas, Missouri La Crosse-Burroughs, Berryman-Kansas, Illinois Phil'a and...
- Nevadaville (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Nevadaville--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1878?]
- Butterfly Mill
- View of the Butterfly Mill after the flood of Trout Lake near Ophir, (San Miguel County), Colorado.
- San Miguel County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Floods--Colorado--San Miguel County--1900-1910.; Mills--Colorado--San Miguel County--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--San Miguel County--1900-1910.
- [between 1934 and 1941]
- General landscape Battle mt. from Victor, Colo.
- View of Battle Mt. with the Granite, Anna Lee, Portland, and Black Diamond mines. Signs read: "Victor Fuel & Feed Co." and "Victor The City At The Mines. The Woods Investment Co., Denver, Colorado Spgs. Victor, Colorado. Mines, Mining Stock,...
- Anna Lee Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Black Diamond Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Granite Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Portland Mine (Teller County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1900.;...
- [between 1896 and 1898]
- Homestake mills and mines, Lead City, So. Dak.
- View shows the waste dump, mill buildings, and mines at the Homestake mining complex, Lead, South Dakota.
- Homestake Mine (S.D.)--1880-1900.; Lead (S.D.)--1880-1900.; Mills--South Dakota--Lead--1880-1900.; Mining--South Dakota--Lead--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Portland- Black Diamond- Victor, Colo.
- View of the Portland, Bobtail, and Black Diamond mines in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Victor, Teller County, Colorado. A large mound of mine dumps and tailing stands next to the slant roofed metal building of the Black Diamond mine. Three...
- Spoil banks--Colorado--Victor--1890-1910.; Victor (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Victor--1890-1910.
- [between 1892 and 1910?]
- Mine assay office
- Interior view of the Fifty Gold Mines Corporation mining assay laboratory in Blackhawk, Colorado; shows balance-scales, a distiller, chemical glassware including beakers, funnels, flasks, alembics, mortars, and bottles labeled: "Nitric Acid." A man...
- Fifty Gold Mines Corporation--1900-1910.; Assaying--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Blackhawk (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Gold--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Laboratories--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1900-1910.
- [between 1906 and 1910?]
- Abrams Mountain
- View of Abrams Mountain with a complex of mines and mining structures along the slopes above the Uncompahgre River, Ouray County, Colorado.
- Mining buildings--Colorado--Ouray County--1910-1930.; Abrams Mountain (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Ouray County (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Uncompahgre River (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Ouray County--1910-1930.; Rivers--Colorado--Ouray...
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Miners at the Smuggler boarding house
- Miners pose outdoors near the boarding house at the Smuggler Mine near Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado.
- Telluride (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Telluride--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Leadville, Colorado
- View of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows mines, mining processing facilities, tailings, houses, the Sawatch Mountains, and a horse-drawn buggy.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Leadville, Colorado
- View of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows mines, mining processing facilities, tailings, houses, and the Sawatch Mountains.
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Leadville, Colorado
- View of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; shows mines, mining processing facilities, tailings, houses, and the Sawatch Mountains.
- Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Gold mining in Gilpin county
- View of cabins in a mining camp with tailings, mines and sluices on a treeless hillside, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1860-1870.; Cabins--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Gold mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1860-1870.
- between 1860 and 1869
- Largest gold mining operation in Colorado
- Postcard shows aerial and close-up views of the Chain O'Mines Mill near Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado.
- Central City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Mills--Colorado--Central City--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- We Got 'Em Mine building & tracks
- View of the tramway and a building at the We Got 'Em Mine near Silver Creek Gilpin County, Colorado. Machinery that includes a friction drum and wheelbarrow is near the building.
- Gilpin County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; We Got 'Em Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1920-1930.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Gilpin County--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1930-1940.
- May 31, 1936
- View of Bobtail Hill, Gilpin Co., Colo.
- View of Bobtail Hill in Black Hawk (Gilpin County), Colorado. Wood frame residences are in the gulch below mines. Shows mining shafthouses and tailing dumps. Signs read: "The Americus Gold M & M Co." and "Fisk."
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.
- [between 1895 and 1901?]
- Caribou, Colo. early mine machinery 1941
- A wooden drum from a "slack-belt" hoist (widely used in Caribou mines during the early mining days) and a boiler that supplied steam to activate the hoist and pumps, stand in the foreground on a hill near Caribou in Boulder County, Colorado. Pine...
- Mining equipment--1940-1950.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Caribou (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Boilers--1940-1950.; Hoisting machinery--1940-1950.
- [1941?]
- Mining, Gilpin County
- The Avon Gold Mining Company stands on the side of a lightly snow-covered hill in Gilpin County, Colorado. A tall smokestack protrudes from the roof of the shafthouse. A railroad track winds through the foreground. Additional mine shafthouses dot...
- Mine buildings--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1920.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Gold mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1920.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1920.; Smokestacks--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Coeur d' Alene Mine Shaft House, Central City, Colo.
- View of the Coeur d' Alene Mine Shaft House located at 101 Academy Street, Central City, Colo. The mine operated from 1885 producing gold, silver, lead copper, and zinc until production stopped in 1940. The red painted metal and wood shaft house...
- Coeur d' Alene Mine Shaft House (Central City, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Gold mines and mining--Colorado--Central City--2000-2010.; Central City (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Coeur d' Alene Mine Shaft House (Central City,Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Gold mines and...
- 2002
- Colo. Chain of Mines, Gilpin County, Colo.
- View of the over-the-road ore conveyor at the Colo. Chain of Mines facility located in Gilpin County on the Virginia Canyon Road between Central City and Russell Gulch, Colo.
- Colorado Chain of Mines (Gilpin County, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Gold mines and mining--Colorado--Gilpin County--2010-2020.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Colorado Chain of Mines (Gilpin County, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Gold mines and...
- 2002
- Climax Mine
- View of the Climax Mine and Bartlett Mountain located approximately 13 miles northeast of Leadville in Climax, Colo. The mine began shipping ore in ca.1915 and at its highest output was the largest molybdenum mine in the world. For many years it...
- Molybdenum mines and mining--Colorado--Climax--2000-2010.; Climax (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Climax Molybdenum Co. (Climax, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Climax Molybdenum Co. (Climax, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Molybdenum mines and...
- 2006
- Matchless Mine, Lake County, Colo.
- View of the head frame and home of Baby Doe Tabor at the Matchless Mine located near Leadville in Lake County, Colo. The mine is an example of the early mining industry in Colorado.
- Matchless Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Lake County--2000-2010.; Lake County (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Lake County--Pictorial works.; Matchless Mine (Lake County,...
- 2007
- National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, Colo.
- View of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum located in the former Lake County High School, 120 West 9th Street, Leadville, Colo. Built in 1900, the two-story brick structure has ornate pedimented dormers with urn finials and corbeled...
- National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (Leadville, Colo.)--1980-1990.; High school buildings--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.; Silver mines and mining--Museums--Colorado--Leadville--1980-1990.; Leadville (Colo.)--1980-1990.; National Mining Hall...
- 1989
- Climax Colo mining
- View of a building under construction at the Climax Mine in Lake County, Colorado. The crushing plant and tramway bridges are nearby.
- Molybdenum mines and mining--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.; Climax (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Climax Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Building construction--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Climax Colo mining
- View of the construction of mill unit number three at the Climax Mine in Lake County, Colorado. Construction workers stand near a cement mixer. The tramway and a water tower are nearby.
- Molybdenum mines and mining--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.; Climax (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Climax Mine (Lake County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Building construction--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Climax--1930-1940.; Molybdenum...
- [between 1930 and 1940]
- Black mouth of the Moloch [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- The coal trains of Trinidad [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Trinidad (Colo.)
- 1963
- The big steam hoist [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- Hell fires of the Purgatoire [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)
- 1963
- Road to the Black Hills [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- The graves of Aguilar [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Aguilar (Colo.)
- 1963
- Deep canyons, deep shadows [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- Purgatoire River gondolas [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)
- 1963
- "Sic transit gloria" [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- Coal and cactus [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.
- 1963
- The iron witnesses [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Ludlow (Colo.)
- 1963
- Decay at Delagua [art original].
- Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Painting, American.; Coal mines and mining in art.; Coal trade--Pictorial works.; Oil paintings.; Delagua (Colo.)
- 1963
- Colorado mining
- View shows a dirt road and mining equipment at an unidentified mine owned by Orizaba Mines Company, Grand County, Colorado.
- Orizaba Mines Company (Colo.)--Facilities--1920-1930.; Grand County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Gold mining--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.; Mining--Colorado--Grand County--1920-1930.
- 1921?